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I haven’t written about kids and yoga since one of C&C’s all-time most popular posts ran last year around this time on Why My Daughter Was Kicked Out of Yoga. Well, this isn’t a humor post like that one. This one is less about the kids and more about the mat.

A little over a week ago, I posted a picture to the Critters And Crayons Facebook Page about a little morning game we were going to test out to see if we could coax some enthusiasm out of our children before the sun came up! Our little morning surprise involved a yoga mat and some other fun materials- and I realized that we’ve found a few uses for our yoga mat beyond the normally recommended exercises.

Yoga Mat Play Idea #1:

Yoga Mat & Pilates Ball Bowling!

The night of that post, after the kids and I picked up the play area before bed, I had an idea as I looked at the rarely used bowling pins and even more rarely used yoga mats and weighted pilates balls in the corner.

So, after the kids were sleeping soundly, we laid out a couple of yoga mats and split the bowling pins between them.

The yoga mats looked like bowling alley lanes, and the smooth surfaces were perfect for setting the pins up easily for the kids.

The weighted pilates balls made the kids feel like it was more like a real bowling experience!